Publications (60)
The ANTARES detector: two decades of neutrino searches in the Mediterranean Sea
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +138
Interest for studying cosmic neutrinos using deep-sea detectors has increase after the discovery of a diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos by the IceCube collaboration and the possibil…
The Positioning System of the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
S. Adrián-MartÃnez, M. Ageron, J. A. Aguilar +158
The ANTARES neutrino telescope, located 40km off the coast of Toulon in the Mediterranean Sea at a mooring depth of about 2475m, consists of twelve detection lines equipped typical…
Limits on the nuclearite flux using the ANTARES neutrino telescope
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +143
In this work, a search for nuclearites of strange quark matter by using nine years of ANTARES data taken in the period 2009-2017 is presented. The passage through matter of these p…
Study of tau neutrinos and non-unitary neutrino mixing with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +274
Oscillations of atmospheric muon and electron neutrinos produce tau neutrinos with energies in the GeV range, which can be observed by the ORCA detector of the KM3NeT neutrino tele…
Atmospheric neutrino constraints on Lorentz invariance violation with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, A. Albert +294
Lorentz invariance is a fundamental symmetry underlying both the Standard Model of particle physics and General Relativity. Testing its validity provides a direct means of searchin…
Search for an eV-scale sterile neutrino with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, A. Albert +285
The existence of an eV-scale sterile neutrino has been proposed to explain several anomalous experimental results obtained over the course of the past 25 years. The first search fo…
The Online Data Filter for the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescopes
O. Adriani, S. Aiello, A. Albert +279
The KM3NeT research infrastructure comprises two neutrino telescopes located in the deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea, namely ORCA and ARCA. KM3NeT/ORCA is designed for the meas…
Search for solar atmospheric neutrinos with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +145
Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos (SAs) are produced by the interaction of cosmic rays with the solar medium. The detection of SAs would provide useful information on the composi…
gSeaGen code by KM3NeT: an efficient tool to propagate muons simulated with CORSIKA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, A. R. Alhebsi +260
The KM3NeT Collaboration has tackled a common challenge faced by the astroparticle physics community, namely adapting the experiment-specific simulation software to work with the C…
Letter of Intent for KM3NeT 2.0
S. Adrián-MartÃnez, M. Ageron, F. Aharonian +244
The main objectives of the KM3NeT Collaboration are i) the discovery and subsequent observation of high-energy neutrino sources in the Universe and ii) the determination of the mas…
Search for Spatial Correlations of Neutrinos with Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays
The ANTARES collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +1042
For several decades, the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) has been an unsolved question of high-energy astrophysics. One approach for solving this puzzle is to corr…
Acoustic Positioning for Deep Sea Neutrino Telescopes with a System of Piezo Sensors Integrated into Glass Spheres
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +137
Position calibration in the deep sea is typically done by means of acoustic multilateration using three or more acoustic emitters installed at known positions. Rather than using hy…
KM3NeT Constraint on Lorentz-Violating Superluminal Neutrino Velocity
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, S. Aiello +290
Lorentz invariance is a fundamental symmetry of spacetime and foundational to modern physics. One of its most important consequences is the constancy of the speed of light. This in…
Results of the follow-up of ANTARES neutrino alerts
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +188
High-energy neutrinos could be produced in the interaction of charged cosmic rays with matter or radiation surrounding astrophysical sources. To look for transient sources associat…
The KM3NeT potential for the next core-collapse supernova observation with neutrinos
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +245
The KM3NeT research infrastructure is under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of two water Cherenkov neutrino detectors, ARCA and ORCA, aimed at neutrino astrophys…
Measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +260
KM3NeT/ORCA is a water Cherenkov neutrino detector under construction and anchored at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The detector is designed to study oscillations of atmosph…
Searches for neutrinos in the direction of radio-bright blazars with the ANTARES telescope
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +162
Active galaxies, especially blazars, are among the most promising neutrino source candidates. To date, ANTARES searches for these objects considered GeV-TeV -ray bright blazars…
Search for Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Coincidences Using HAWC and ANTARES Data
H. A. Ayala Solares, S. Coutu, D. Cowen +228
In the quest for high-energy neutrino sources, the Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) has implemented a new search by combining data from the High Altitude Wat…
Constraining gamma-ray burst parameters with the first ultra-high energy neutrino event KM3-230213A
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, A. Albert +278
Context: The detection of the highest energy neutrino observed to date by KM3NeT, with an estimated energy of 220 PeV, opens up new possibilities for the study and identification o…
Search for Magnetic Monopoles with the Complete ANTARES Dataset
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +137
This study presents a novel search for magnetic monopoles using data collected over a 14 year period (2008-2022) by the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The interaction of magnetic mono…
Review of the online analyses of multi-messenger alerts and electromagnetic transient events with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +146
By constantly monitoring at least one complete hemisphere of the sky, neutrino telescopes are well designed to detect neutrinos emitted by transient astrophysical events. Real-time…
Embedded Software of the KM3NeT Central Logic Board
S. Aiello, A. Albert, S. Alves Garre +271
The KM3NeT Collaboration is building and operating two deep sea neutrino telescopes at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The telescopes consist of latices of photomultiplier tub…
Determining the Neutrino Mass Ordering and Oscillation Parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, S. Alves Garre +239
The next generation of water Cherenkov neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea are under construction offshore France (KM3NeT/ORCA) and Sicily (KM3NeT/ARCA). The KM3NeT/ORCA d…
Embedded software developments in KM3NeT phase I
V. van Beveren, D. Real, T. Chiarusi +10
The KM3NeT Collaboration has already produced more than one thousand acquisition boards, used for building two deep-sea neutrino detectors at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, w…
The prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT detector
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Adrián-MartÃnez, M. Ageron +246
A prototype detection unit of the KM3NeT deep-sea neutrino telescope has been installed at 3500m depth 80km offshore the Italian coast. KM3NeT in its final configuration will conta…
Search for steady and flaring neutrino emission from cosmic sources using the complete ANTARES dataset
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +139
ANTARES, a neutrino detector located in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea, operated successfully for over 15 years before being decommissioned in 2022. The telescope offered an i…
Search for Neutrino Emission from GRB 221009A using the KM3NeT ARCA and ORCA detectors
S. Aiello, A. Albert, M. Alshamsi +273
Gamma-ray bursts are promising candidate sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. The recent GRB 221009A event, identified as the brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected, pr…
Combined sensitivity of JUNO and KM3NeT/ORCA to the neutrino mass ordering
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +275
This article presents the potential of a combined analysis of the JUNO and KM3NeT/ORCA experiments to determine the neutrino mass ordering. This combination is particularly interes…
Probing invisible neutrino decay with KM3NeT-ORCA
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +252
In the era of precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters, upcoming neutrino experiments will also be sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model. KM3NeT/ORCA…
Implementation and first results of the KM3NeT real-time core-collapse supernova neutrino search
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +242
The KM3NeT research infrastructure is under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. KM3NeT will study atmospheric and astrophysical neutrinos with two multi-purpose neutrino detecto…
Testing Heavy Dark Matter Decay as the Origin of KM3-230213A
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, J. A. Aguilar +287
This work explores the hypothesis that the ultra-high-energy neutrino event KM3-230213A originates from the decay of a heavy dark matter particle with a mass above PeV scale. The a…
Nanobeacon: A time calibration device for the KM3NeT neutrino telescope
S. Aiello, A. Albert, M. Alshamsi +238
The KM3NeT Collaboration is currently constructing a multi-site high-energy neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea consisting of matrices of pressure-resistant glass spheres,…
Long term monitoring of the optical background in the Capo Passero deep-sea site with the NEMO tower prototype
S. Adrián-MartÃnez, S. Aiello, F. Ameli +101
The NEMO Phase-2 tower is the first detector which was operated underwater for more than one year at the "record" depth of 3500 m. It was designed and built within the framework of…
Search for non-standard neutrino interactions with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, A. R. Alhebsi +261
KM3NeT/ORCA is an underwater neutrino telescope under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. Its primary scientific goal is to measure the atmospheric neutrino oscillation paramete…
Search for secluded dark matter towards the Galactic Centre with the ANTARES neutrino telescope
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. Andre +146
Searches for dark matter (DM) have not provided any solid evidence for the existence of weakly interacting massive particles in the GeV-TeV mass range. Coincidentally, the scale of…
The Power Board of the KM3NeT Digital Optical Module: design, upgrade, and production
S. Aiello, A. Albert, S. Alves Garre +281
The KM3NeT Collaboration is building an underwater neutrino observatory at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea consisting of two neutrino telescopes, both composed of a three-dimen…
Optimizing the potential of KM3NeT in detecting core-collapse supernovae
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, A. Albert +285
Core-collapse supernovae mark the end of life of massive stars. However, despite their importance in astrophysics, their underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Neutrinos that emerge…
KM3NeT front-end and readout electronics system: hardware, firmware and software
The KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, F. Ameli +237
The KM3NeT research infrastructure being built at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea will host water-Cherenkov telescopes for the detection of cosmic neutrinos. The neutrino teles…
Sensitivity to light sterile neutrino mixing parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, M. Alshamsi +245
KM3NeT/ORCA is a next-generation neutrino telescope optimised for atmospheric neutrino oscillations studies. In this paper, the sensitivity of ORCA to the presence of a light steri…
Hint for a TeV neutrino emission from the Galactic Ridge with ANTARES
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +151
Interactions of cosmic ray protons, atomic nuclei, and electrons in the interstellar medium in the inner part of the Milky Way produce a -ray flux from the Galactic Ridge. If t…
Searches for neutrino counterparts of gravitational waves from the LIGO/Virgo third observing run with KM3NeT
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +273
The KM3NeT neutrino telescope is currently being deployed at two different sites in the Mediterranean Sea. First searches for astrophysical neutrinos have been performed using data…
Dependence of atmospheric muon flux on seawater depth measured with the first KM3NeT detection units
KM3NeT Collaboration, M. Ageron, S. Aiello +262
KM3NeT is a research infrastructure located in the Mediterranean Sea, that will consist of two deep-sea Cherenkov neutrino detectors. With one detector (ARCA), the KM3NeT Collabora…
On the Potential Galactic Origin of the Ultra-High-Energy Event KM3-230213A
O. Adriani, S. Aiello, A. Albert +286
The KM3NeT observatory detected the most energetic neutrino candidate ever observed, with an energy between 72 PeV and 2.6 EeV at the 90% confidence level. The observed neutrino is…
Prospects for combined analyses of hadronic emission from -ray sources in the Milky Way with CTA and KM3NeT
T. Unbehaun, L. Mohrmann, S. Funk +271
The Cherenkov Telescope Array and the KM3NeT neutrino telescopes are major upcoming facilities in the fields of -ray and neutrino astronomy, respectively. Possible simultaneous…
Deep sea tests of a prototype of the KM3NeT digital optical module
S. Adrián-MartÃnez, M. Ageron, F. Aharonian +247
The first prototype of a photo-detection unit of the future KM3NeT neutrino telescope has been deployed in the deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea. This digital optical module has…
The ultra-high-energy event KM3-230213A within the global neutrino landscape
KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, S. Aiello +290
On February 13th, 2023, the KM3NeT/ARCA telescope detected a neutrino candidate with an estimated energy in the hundreds of PeVs. In this article, the observation of this ultra-hig…
The OctoPAES board for the validation of KM3NeT data acquisition system
F. Filippini, T. Chiarusi, G. Balbi +6
A test-bench has been set up at the INFN Sezione di Bologna to optimise key elements of the KM3NeT data acquisition system. A complete framework has been built to simulate a full d…
Probing invisible neutrino decay with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, A. R. Alhebsi +273
In the era of precision measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters, it is necessary for experiments to disentangle discrepancies that may indicate physics beyond the Standard…
First Searches for Dark Matter with the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescopes
KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +262
Indirect dark matter detection methods are used to observe the products of dark matter annihilations or decays originating from astrophysical objects where large amounts of dark ma…
Search for quantum decoherence in neutrino oscillations with six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, A. R. Alhebsi +259
Neutrinos described as an open quantum system may interact with the environment which introduces stochastic perturbations to their quantum phase. This mechanism leads to a loss of…
Constraints on the energy spectrum of the diffuse cosmic neutrino flux from the ANTARES neutrino telescope
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +139
High-significance evidences of the existence of a high-energy diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos have emerged in the last decade from several observations by the IceCube Collaboratio…
Intrinsic limits on resolutions in muon- and electron-neutrino charged-current events in the KM3NeT/ORCA detector
S. Adrián-MartÃnez, M. Ageron, S. Aiello +250
Studying atmospheric neutrino oscillations in the few-GeV range with a multimegaton detector promises to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy. This is the main science goal pursue…
Deep Learning Framework for Enhanced Neutrino Reconstruction of Single-line Events in the ANTARES Telescope
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +137
We present the -fit algorithm designed to improve the reconstruction of neutrino events detected by a single line of the ANTARES underwater telescope, usually associated with lo…
Search for Magnetic Monopoles with ten years of the ANTARES neutrino telescope
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +145
This work presents a new search for magnetic monopoles using data taken with the ANTARES neutrino telescope over a period of 10 years (January 2008 to December 2017). Compared to p…
Deep-sea deployment of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope detection units by self-unrolling
The KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +252
KM3NeT is a research infrastructure being installed in the deep Mediterranean Sea. It will house a neutrino telescope comprising hundreds of networked moorings - detection units or…
Astronomy potential of KM3NeT/ARCA
S. Aiello, A. Albert, M. Alshamsi +275
The KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino detector is currently under construction at 3500 m depth offshore Capo Passero, Sicily, in the Mediterranean Sea. The main science objectives are the detec…
Sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino telescope to point-like neutrino sources
The KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, S. E. Akrame +219
KM3NeT will be a network of deep-sea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea. The KM3NeT/ARCA detector, to be installed at the Capo Passero site (Italy), is optimised for the…
Search for non-standard neutrino interactions with 10 years of ANTARES data
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. André +145
Non-standard interactions of neutrinos arising in many theories beyond the Standard Model can significantly alter matter effects in atmospheric neutrino propagation through the Ear…
Search for neutrino counterparts to the gravitational wave sources from LIGO/Virgo O3 run with the ANTARES detector
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, S. Alves +150
Since 2015 the LIGO and Virgo interferometers have detected gravitational waves from almost one hundred coalescences of compact objects (black holes and neutron stars). This articl…
The Control Unit of the KM3NeT Data Acquisition System
S. Aiello, F. Ameli, M. Andre +217
The KM3NeT Collaboration runs a multi-site neutrino observatory in the Mediterranean Sea. Water Cherenkov particle detectors, deep in the sea and far off the coasts of France and I…